Monthly Archives: October 2018


WINCHESTER — When Pastor Brad Hill came to Winchester six-and-a-half years ago, he never dreamed he’d see a day where the community’s attitude toward addiction turned from scorn to compassion. Hill started his own recovery from addiction when he came to Winchester, but he said there weren’t many places to go for help back then due to the negative perception people had of addicts and alcoholics. “Since then, I’ve noticed the community opening up so many different things,” he said. “We’ve got a ton of recovery centers now, we’ve got a lot of......

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Emma is rocking her baby, speaking to her softly in the neonatal intensive care unit of Winchester Medical Center in the city of Winchester, Virginia. The blinds are drawn and the room is quiet. A cheerful poster on the wall says that Emma’s daughter, Story, was born six days ago. She weighs six pounds and 13 ounces. But Story isn’t like most other newborns. In her first days of life, she is going through withdrawal from the opioids that her mother took while she was pregnant, leading to a condition known as......

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